self-revelation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-revelation
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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For a memoirist, Mr. Lemann remains ambivalent about self-revelation, eliding his professional accomplishments and any emotional upheavals along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
It’s kind of like you just have an ideal scenario for self-revelation as it relates to societal injustice or something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
And despite a promise of self-revelation, the author still remains, well, anonymous.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2019
What’s missing from the scene is the kind of stringent self-revelation that would have filled out their backstories and rendered them as individuals, with idiosyncratic, specific, history-haunted inner lives.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
And I realize that my parents will be as puzzled by my act of self-revelation as they are by the movie star’s revelations on the talk show.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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